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Excellent performance from Eaton yesterday and he looks very at home on the grass, but also in the whole atmosphere of Wimbledon.

His serve is always going to be the big weapon for him and as long as he serves like that he is always going to have a great chance of winning matches on a fast court, but with the rest of his game you can see that on a bad day he is going to struggle to win matches.

But yesterday was a great performance from him as everything looked to be working (his strenghts anyway), and he always looked as if he'd have too much for Pashanski.

Baker's loss, although not entirely surprising was a big disappointing when you look at the score, as losing in 3 easy sets to Galvani doesn't show a lot of promise at all and if the kind of match you have to take advantage of.

I know he's not played a lot of matches, but he if was fit enough to play, then you can't use it as an excuse, and to be honest, that may have been his best chance of a Wimbledon win, but at least he's back playing tennis again

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Baker did okay, I think, but I hate to say that giving him a WC both here and in Nottingham wasn't in his best interests.

You cannot expect a Challenger level player to do well on the big stage when the truth is that most Tour players struggle after lengthy injury/illness breaks. Remember Ancic refusing a wild card and playing qualies once? What a waste... it was just handing him the money and they could have done it without making him take the WC.
Surely Baker could have played somewhere like Liverpool or Boodles? Boodles may not be easy to get into but the LTA are in good terms with them and they'll do anything that Andy Murray tells them to do.

Sums up British tennis - two players who least deserved WCs among the five or six who are capable of winning matches got them. No blaming Baker, of course, as you take what you're given.

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On the subject of photos of Chris (though not his butt! wink ), there are three in the print edition of today's Times, including half of the back page ( biggrin ).  A smaller version of the latter (just a head shot of him with his tongue stuck out! eyepopping.gif ) accompanies Neil Harman's on-line report, complete with readers' comments kicked off by someone called John in Prague who's obviously been at the sour grapes (put firmly in his place by someone in Plymouth!) & including an offer of free accommodation for the US Open from someone who lives in New Jersey, which would be quite convenient! smile

Harman also started his round-up of yesterday's action with these heart-warming words:

Raw talent of Chris Eaton emerges to keep home fires burning at Wimbledon

Chris Eaton drives a Vauxhall Astra with duct tape on one of its wing mirrors and strings his own tennis rackets because he knows exactly how he likes them to feel in his grip. Eaton is an English tennis player who has a bullet of a serve, loves to volley, possesses a dreamy single-handed backhand and is not the least fazed by the prospect of winning a match at Wimbledon (Alex Bogdanovic take note). He went to the same school, Reeds in Cobham, Surrey, as Tim Henman and for some time yesterday, played a lot like him.

If you think this is made up, you ought to have been on No 3 Court yesterday when Eaton, the world No 661, went about defeating Boris Pashanski, of Serbia, in three sets, so that he can offer Andy Murray some second-round company. [...]

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And this one's with a piece by Giles Smith entitled "Plucky Brit travels from Uzbekistan to Utopia2 in the print edition!
 


There appears to be no sign of the accompanying graphic, entitled "New boy making a racket", which lists "some more things you may not know about Britain's latest tennis star! cry

*  He may not stand so much as a dog's chance against Tursunov tomorrow, but he has absolutely nothing to lose, so I imagine he'll just go for it much as Naomi Cavaday did in the first set against Venus yesterday!  And stranger things have happened already this Wimbledon... biggrin



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Bolelli has won 1st set vs Gonzo, and seems to be going ok in the 2nd.

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Count is surely shouting badly for Bolelli now! wink.gif So am I...

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well of course!



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bolelli the grass ct mug is 2 sets up on gonzo now!


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Also from Harman's article -

"A pity the BBC was showing its highlights programme at the time and did not cut away to a live event that was really worth watching. "


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Greenleaf wrote:

Baker did okay, I think, but I hate to say that giving him a WC both here and in Nottingham wasn't in his best interests.

Sums up British tennis - two players who least deserved WCs among the five or six who are capable of winning matches got them. No blaming Baker, of course, as you take what you're given.


Baker was probably most deserving of a wildcard, given that he achieved the LTA's top 250 cut-off in spite of being out for a couple of months and had played to his potential for most of the year.

I agree that he was perhaps less likely than some to take advantage of it but I think he had to be given it or it would have sent out even worse signals to the players.



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I am not saying that he didn't deserve a WC here. I'm saying that he shouldn't have got one both here and at Nottingham.

For his own good, and that's obvious now.

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bolelli won, 3 TB sets! whilst dropping a non tb in the middle

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The useless Bolelli shows how bad Boggo really is by taking four close sets to dispatch the clay courter called Fernando Gonzalez who's ranked 356 in the world.

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Also from Harman's article -

"A pity the BBC was showing its highlights programme at the time and did not cut away to a live event that was really worth watching. "


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True, but it was being shown on BBCi!  I completely ignored Today at Wimbledon for once & watched a good bit of Chris' match! wink



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They use that as an easy excuse.

It's assumed that everyone has digital television.

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